Home nutritional support: Ethics and artificial feeding;Ethique et nutrition artificielle

Revue Medicale de Bruxelles

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Pepersack, Th ^a  

^a BRUGMANN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; COMPETENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DECISION MAKING; FEEDING APPARATUS; HOME CARE; HUMAN; HYDRATION; INFORMED CONSENT; LIVING WILL; MEDICAL ETHICS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PATIENT CARE; RESPONSIBILITY; SYMPTOM;

FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT;

EID: 0347090342     PISSN: 00353639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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